Amid the disruptions at elite universities across the nation, it is tempting to compare the student protests over Gaza to uprisings during the Vietnam War.
Anti-Israel encampments that are raising security concerns for Jewish students were seen at Columbia, Yale, NYU, MIT and Emerson College on Monday. The post Anti-Israel protests sweep across elite universities just before Passover first appeared on WFIN Local News.
Chaotic protests, violent clashes, and explicit calls for terrorism plagued Columbia University over the weekend, with the school's president, Minouche Shafik, facing pressure to restore order—or resign. Jewish students were subject to another night of violent demonstrations Saturday, just days after Shafik testified before Congress about the school's response to campus anti-Semitism. A group of […]
In response to ongoing anti-Israel protests and the vicious antisemitism at Columbia University, prominent Jewish billionaires Robert Kraft and Leon Cooperman have announced their decisions to halt financial contributions to their alma mater. Kraft, a significant donor and a graduate who benefited from a full academic scholarship at Columbia, expressed his disillusionment with the university […]
This also comes as U.S. anti-Semitic incidents have increased 140%, breaking previous records, according to the ADL.
Anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses spiked 320 percent last year, with more than three-fourths of them in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents released Tuesday.
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Nearly two weeks ago, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik assured members of Congress that an anti-Semitic professor had been terminated. That professor, Mohamed Abdou, was "grading his students' papers" before the end of the semester and would "never teach at Columbia again," Shafik said.
The statement comes hours after a rabbi at Columbia University has cautioned Jewish students against returning to campus over anti-Semitic protesting. Now, the White House has issued a statement blasting far left demonstrators in another example of anti-Semitism on Ivy League campuses. White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates called the protests 'blatantly anti-Semitic, unconscionable, and dangerous'
Rabbi Elie Buechler cautioned the students against returning to campus. The warning came amid a days-long protest that saw more than 100 arrested